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Good morning everyone! It's going to be VERY eclectic music postings by me today. Since there are lots of festivities continuing throughout this holiday season let's get started with Kool and the Gang!

I really like the Dixie Chicks, and I admire them. I'm not a big fan of country western music. However, there are certain artists that I really love, and I have presented on this thread such as Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, and Lucinda Williams. The Dixie Chicks are definitely on my list of favorites.

When I first heard "Landslide," it was performed by it's original songwriter, Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. I liked it. However, when I later heard it performed by the Dixie Chicks I thought WOW! They really took it to a whole new level! Immediately following will be a real treat. Stevie Nicks onstage performing her Landslides with the Dixie Chicks. It made me smile to see and hear it. Have a listen and see what you think.

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I got a lovely brand new puppy that loves me,My wife lost two stone and wears sexyfuntime pants just for me.I got a real good secure job doing something I love.I have a wonderfull house that I own.I have so much money I couldnt spend it if i tried.

OOOPS, thats not very country and western is it... Sorry. LOL

I think I just invented Opposite country. Or hang on, Pseudo-country... Sort of much to happy!

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Good morning Rossy! I'm glad I'm not all alone here today. I suppose that may have been a bit too chipper for lyrics of some of C & W music I've heard. Not all, however. Blues can be like that too. That's why Willie Nelson and Ray Charles understood each other and performed together.

Here is another gem from the Dixie Chicks in a special tribute to James Taylor.

Take your time with the recipe, Griffin! I probably won't have a chance to make it for the next couple of weeks, anyway..

ooh ooh last night I was watching the Kennedy Center Honors thingie and I saw something I liked! They were honoring Yo Yo Ma and they had the Silk Road Ensemble!

What is that instrument that looks like 20 little pipes sticking up?

I wondered about that too AimeeO. Does anybody viewing this thread know what that instrument is? That was a wonderful program last night. Me and my other half were enjoying it while visiting my nephew and his family.

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Oh please, dear gawd dont let it be a bagpipe of any description...

AimeeO !!! You dont have time to make PANCAKES for the next two weeks?? What the dickens ( good christmas word) are you doing that doesnt allow you a whole four mins for pancake making over the festivities?LOL Is BillyO working you too hard again?

Good posts griffin, will post some myself in a few mins, I am just trying to Please Mrs R at the moment..I need her to feel beholden to me a little so I can get my own way about something else a little later.

I made her a gigantic sarnie with nice festive things in it, that should do the trick.maybe.

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I've had one interruption after another today at home, and never got to post my final Dixie Chicks selection that I like. It is their musical response to those who once tried to silence them and made threats on their lives. I will let their music speak for itself.

Edited by griffin2417 (12/28/1102:52 PM)Edit Reason: A typo on the name

AimeeO !!! You dont have time to make PANCAKES for the next two weeks?? What the dickens ( good christmas word) are you doing that doesnt allow you a whole four mins for pancake making over the festivities?LOL Is BillyO working you too hard again?

Hi Rossy! AimeeO is probably wise to wait a few weeks on these pancakes! They are a bit more labor intensive than your usual breakfast pancakes! YUM!

How's it going Dude? I'm looking forward to hearing your posts! It is so nice to be home on holiday, though I have been busy. I'll be around most of the day!

No its not bagpipes, because it's not in a bag and is held in 2 hands. Take a few deep breaths, Rossy - everything will be ok.

BillyO is making me work hard by making me work at all. I should be a stay at home mom to my cat, as she needs me. Actually, the next couple of weeks we have to work extra days at work, so I will be too tired to make pancakes stuffed with beans. Any food stuffed with another food usually takes longer than I think it will.

What are you trying to get from Mrs Rossy? More time in her sexyfuntime pants?

Griffin, I really liked the Honors show! Unfortunately, I only caught the second half. The whole Yo Yo Ma segment was great. BillyO liked it to, and now wants a mandolin and an Olsen guitar like James Taylor (It has an O on the headstock, and since he is BillyO, he decided he should have one too).

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AimeeO just "sometime" with regards to sexyfuntime pants.. she has her grumpygirl face on at the moment because a tutorial on youtube she was watching turned out to be BS. Also the guy doing the tutorial could not speak any slower if he had his tongue held with pincers. There is nothing quite like a bad tutorial to annoy mrs R, she ends up screaming at the computer.. "If you dont know , why the F*** did you do a tutorial you ****er!"

then she is annoyed for ages and its hard to make her laugh for a while...

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Hi Recaredo! It's good hearing from you. It's morning on this side of the Atlantic. I am home for the holidays. I'm just getting my morning coffee. I'll be listening to the organ Tocatta in a few minutes. You know I love organ music.

I'm not sure about what I want to post today. I'll be back with something shortly.

Recaredo, I loved the Toccata. I had not heard this before. I rarely get to listen to some of the later organ composers. Thanks for introducing me to Widor. You've turned me on to some interesting music Dude! I'm still reviewing information about Flamenco.

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Indeed, good posts all round folks, and most enjoyable, I have listened to them a couple of times!!

I have been a little absent though due to an adaptation of Dorian Gray that was on telly till late ish.I love that story , i dont know how true to the book it was, as ashamedly I have not read the book, but will do soon.

Time for some NICO, and heres the first "the fairest of the seasons"

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Rise like lions after slumber,in unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dewwhich in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many,they are few. Shelley

I've got nothing to post really today because I've been busy on a home improvement project but this organ music is reminding me that I have to make my parents find their old reel to reel which my dad claims still works so that I can hear the recordings they made in the 70's of my great grandfather playing pipe organ at his church. It would be cool to hear him making music because most of what I remember of him is his playing tricks with his hearing aids.

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Well Wayne is seriously missing!! Surely your mot meant to be still enjoying christmas are you folks?Technically I dont know quite when to stop enjoying christmas.

Anyways, this is the English band from stoke newington London.,called sons of the desert, dont mix them up with other bands of the same name... they now reside in france where they have a restaurant and do musical evenings....

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Hi Rossy! I'm just stopping by briefly right now. I'm hoping I'll be able to post later today. I'm thinking more about New Years Day, than Christmas. We always avoid the crazy New Years Eve celebrations outside of our home. Instead we visit with friends and go out for a meal on the first of the New Year. I'm done with Christmas!